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Peer networks allow you to collaborate with others, share ideas, and work together for a common interest or cause. Check them out and see how to experiment, research, and achieve concrete actions.
Suggested resources:
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The Audience Community of Practice is a group providing support for audience development news professionals.
The Statewide News Collective is a community for news organizations serving statewide audiences launched by The Lenfest Institute, RevLab at The Texas Tribune, and Spotlight PA.
Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.
UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). It's main objective is to provide senior level inter-agency peer support to Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) to strengthen the delivery of collective humanitarian assistance and protection in country operations.
Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.
All Things Urban
BerlinWe are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.
In the municipal partnership program, ICLD offers local governments in a number of partner countries and Swedish municipalities and regions, the possibility to enter result oriented collaborations for exchange and peer learning.
Out In Tech
New York, NYOut in Tech is the world’s largest non-profit community of LGBTQ+ tech leaders.
We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights
Worker Info Exchange
LondonData Rights for Digital Workers
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Oakland, CaliforniaBuild, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.
Computer Professionals' Union
Philippines (the)Computer Professional’s Union (CPU) is a mass organization of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals and advocates aspiring to promote ICT for the people.
The national voice of municipalities relating to information and communications technology.
As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative
Last year we piloted an initiative called Community Connections at the Responsible Data mailing list, where we connected two or more members of the community based on their shared interests in responsible data(RD)-related topics, allowing them to chat about topics and projects related to responsible data.
Hacks/Hackers is an international grassroots community of people who seek to inspire and inform each other to build the future of media.
Innovation Exchange
ViennaInitiators of successful political projects in a specific area of politics provide their know-how, experience and dos-and-don’ts in a highly motivating dialogue
Institute for Representative Government
Washington D.C., DC, USAThe Institute for Representative Government (IRG) was established in 1988 by a group of former Members of Congress as an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization to provide high level, professional exchange programs for parliamentarians from developing or newly-established democracies.
Community Solutions Network
Montreal, QC, CanadaOur experienced and diverse team of advisors supports municipalities and organizations of all sizes across Canada on a range of data and tech issues. We work alongside our partners’ teams to assess their needs, define problems, mobilize research and knowledge, design solutions and support their implementation. Contact Us
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
750 17th Street NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20006Journalists in ICFJ's unparalleled network produce news reports that lead to better governments, economies and societies.
Code4Dev Network
South AmericaThe Inter-American Development Bank's network for developers working with governments in Latin America and the Caribbean
Liga Contra el Silencio
ColombiaWe define ourselves as an alliance that involves the media, a central newsroom and a network of freelance collaborators.
/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.
We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Analytics Exchange
New York, NYA community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.
A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.
Ada's List
London, UKAll about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.
Academia de Innovación Política
Paris, FranceLa Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.
Code for All’s new program brings people together who work similar civic tech roles, but at different organizations and in different parts of the world.
Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents. We are the nation’s most comprehensive philanthropic initiative helping local leaders identify and invest in what works. Applications have now closed to be considered as one of our first 100 cities, but check back soon for new opportunities.
We are a community of integrity professionals—the people who build platforms to be better.
Labo Démocratie Ouverte
FranceA network and resource library for open sharing of democratic innovations
Intergovernmental Software Collaborative (formerly State Software Collaborative)
Georgetown University, Washington, DCIdentifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.
International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.
You are not a loan.
Elevator
Washington, DCA mentoring app connecting new and former members of Congress
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
1710 Rhode Island Ave NW, 11th floor Washington DC 20036 USA
Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.
AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers
Apolitical
The Conduit, 40 Conduit Street, London W1S 2YQ, England, UKDiscover the most innovative ideas and solutions in government everywhere. Connect with the people behind them.
Democratic Innovation in Megacities
NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USANDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.
Public Service Lab
BerlinSupporting the transition to better German public services through events, workshops, publications
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